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"Anne blinked repeatedly as she stared at her unexpected, uninvited and yet most welcome guest. She eyed him from top to toe and back, feeling her jaw lower at the sight and only half-consciously hoping that she wouldn't start drooling at some point.Gilbert Blythe was at her door.Alone.Smiling.And he was okay."

Or, a little alternative for GGF Shirbert get-together, set after Lost Chances (Episode 3.23).

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The one where Anne realises she is Bi, with a past crush on Diana and a current one on Gilbert.--She’d loved Diana, she was fairly sure she’d gotten over her, though, with her dating and getting engaged and moving away. The feeling had switched over to someone else, someone she had spent so much time with, grown so much closer to while they’d been at university.Gilbert.

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"... And there's nothing in mine and Gilbert's friendship to suggest anything romantic."That last sentence is an outright lie, because last night when Gilbert walked her to her door, he lingered and Anne squeaked out a goodbye before escaping into her room. Last year, when they both got into Redmond, there was a moment where she thought he might kiss her. And countless other times: eye contact during that Christmas dinner party five months ago; their platonic waltzing, mocked endlessly by Stella; Gilbert's comforting through his refusal to dismiss her tears as dramatic, after she got her first B.

Or, 5 times someone thought Anne and Gilbert could be romantically involved, and one time they were actually right.

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"It’s been three months. Three months since the last time Gilbert visited his folks. Three months since he helped his dad clean out the attic. Three months since he found his Grandma Dora’s engagement ring in an old, dusty chest, underneath even dustier smocks and a pile of old newspapers. At the time, Gil had taken it as a sign. His dad had been looking for that ring for years after Grandma Dora passed away, and Gil found it by happenstance. Gilbert wasn’t a particularly superstitious man, but (and maybe this was just what came from spending so much time with Anne Shirley), he couldn’t help but think it was, at the very least, an impressive and unusual coincidence. It wasn’t like he hadn’t thought about marriage before, but usually those thoughts included a “someday” and didn’t happen when he was holding an gorgeous, one-of-a-kind engagement ring that also happened to be a family heirloom. For the first time, the idea of marrying Anne Shirley became a very real, very tangible possibility, and not just a daydream."

Four times Gilbert Blythe tries to propose to Anne Shirley and fails, and the one time he doesn't try and succeeds.